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Tokyo
Tokyo is the world's largest metropolitan area, the capital of Japan, with neon-lit Shibuya, the Imperial Palace, the world's busiest pedestrian crossing, and a public transport network of unrivalled punctuality.
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Vienna
Vienna is the capital of Austria and one of the world's classical-music capitals — Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert all worked here. Its imperial heritage gives it grand boulevards and palaces like Schoenbrunn.
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Warsaw
Warsaw is Poland's capital, almost completely destroyed in WWII and meticulously rebuilt brick by brick. Its Old Town is a UNESCO site celebrating that reconstruction.
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Wellington
Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state, dramatically set around a deep harbour, with the Te Papa Tongarewa national museum and a cafe-rich downtown.
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Alabama
Alabama is a Deep South state on the Gulf of Mexico, central to the Civil Rights Movement (Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham) and home to the Marshall Space Flight Center where the Saturn V rocket was developed.
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Alaska
Alaska is the largest US state by area, twice the size of Texas, with Mount Denali (Mount McKinley) — North America's highest peak at 6,190 m — and Arctic tundra populated mostly by indigenous Alaska Natives.
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American Samoa
American Samoa is a US territory in the South Pacific, comprising five volcanic islands and two coral atolls. It is the only US territory south of the equator and home to the National Park of American Samoa.
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Arizona
Arizona is famous for the Grand Canyon, Sonoran Desert saguaro cacti, the historic Native American territories of the Navajo Nation, and Sedona's red-rock landscape.
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Arkansas
Arkansas is a south-central US state of forested mountains in the Ozarks, hot springs, and the Mississippi River delta. It was central to school desegregation when Eisenhower deployed troops to Little Rock in 1957.